An action drama set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, focusing on Jack Cleary, a gritty private detective who forms an unlikely partnership with Johnny Betts, a streetwise rock-'n'-roller.
Moody, scruffy Jack Cleary's an honest, but rebellious cop booted out of the LAPD on a bum rap (bribery). Unemployed, with his reputation in tatters, it doesn't help Jack feel any better to know his big brother Nick is a successful, big shot private eye, After his brother Nick is killed while working on a case, Jack takes over his brother's Private Detective business to find his killer, which leads Jack to a scandal in the record industry.
A starlet hires Cleary to keep tabs on her unfaithful lover, a mobster who's rumored to be muscling in on the unions.
A Sunset Strip mobster offers Cleary a job which, if he refuses to accept, will mean the death of Cleary's war buddy---a roller-skating star in debt to the mob.
A young porn star's disappearance leads Cleary into the underbelly of Hollywood, a world of blue movies, broken dreams and blackmail.
Cleary looks for the stolen master of a rockabilly star's latest album, and gets Johnny involved with a wispy blonde as he plays bodyguard to the brooding star.
Johnny finds himself in a fiery romance with a rock-and-roller's ex-girl friend, while Cleary searches for a murderer and uncovers a counterfeit-record operation.
Johnny clashes with East L.A. gang members after he falls for a local woman, his car is stolen at a rock club, and he stumbles upon a heroin ring.
Cleary tries to clear a young woman's brother of murder charges stemming from a robbery at a Chinatown gambling den.
On a blackmail case involving a Hollywood agent, Cleary is reunited with his former mentor, an ex-cop who's working for the agent's wife.
The FBI orders Cleary to get "uninvolved" in the case of a black woman who's being harassed by her white neighbors.
A tycoon hires Cleary to keep tabs on his flirtatious wife, but Cleary starts working for the woman after learning her life is in danger; and Dottie soars to new heights with a young flyboy.
A gossip rag prints Cleary's surveillance photos of a starlet who later turns up dead.
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